Little-Known Facts: Call of Duty: Black Ops Multiplayer

Hello! I’m Josh Olin (aka JD_2020), and thank you for the opportunity to highlight some of the features that Call of Duty: Black Ops will deliver to PS3 fans when it launches on November 9th. A number of these features are ones that I think the community has been wanting for a long time, which is why we’ve worked really hard to deliver. So let’s get started!

Multiplayer Online Split-Screen Support

Let’s get started with what I believe is the most unknown, yet confirmed, aspect to Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer – the online split-screen support we’ve re-introduced to the franchise!

The Facts:

You can connect a second controller and bring a guest online (i.e. “JD_2020” & “JD_2020(1)”).

Custom Games Editor

Allow me to introduce the Black Ops Custom Games Editor! Private matches have never been this customizable. Players will have the ability to structure their games at all new levels of granularity. From variables as simple as Time Limit and Score Limit, or as deep as which weapons, Perks, and gear are available. You want a Pistols Only match? Make one! No longer do custom game modes rely on the “honor system.”

Furthermore, any Custom Game you create and configure can be placed in your File Share, for friends and the community to browse, download, and enjoy. You just might create the most addictive new game mode of all time from the comfort of your own living room!

In-Game Friends List

We’ve integrated a built-in Friends List into the in game user interface. You’ll be able to browse Recent Players, Friends, navigate their File Shares, Recent Games, Combat Records – all within this in-game menu system designed to streamline the social process within the game. Sending game invites and joining Friends’ games has never been simpler than in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Regional Matchmaking & Party Privacy

Call of Duty: Black Ops will support regional matchmaking filters on a global scale. So, no matter where you’re at in the world, you will have the ability to specify whether you want to match with players from other geographical regions, or only those local to you. This will make communication and lag a much less intrusive variable on your gameplay experience.

Additionally, given Black Ops will support joining games in progress via an even simpler built-in in-game Friends List interface, we’ll allow a Party leader to lock down his lobby to Invite Only, Friends Only, or even Close it altogether if he wants to be in complete control over who enters and exits the Party Lobby.

Emblems Do NOT Reset with Prestige

This one is pretty cut-and-dried. A frequently asked question is, “Will my kickass emblem I spent hours perfecting be lost when I prestige?” The answer is “NO!” Emblems are one of the only aspects of Black Ops MP that do not get a full reset upon entering Prestige. Things that will reset when you Prestige are: XP, COD Points, Challenge progressions, Loadouts, and so forth.

So that’s just a few of the lesser-known components to Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer, confirmed for the first time here on the official PlayStation.Blog! For more information regarding Black Ops, and all the new features included in multiplayer, head over to our official YouTube channel and watch all the different trailers we have highlighted from the game. Additionally, you can follow me on Twitter (@JD_2020) for more news and updates.

Will the Trophies be fixed this time around? in WaW, u get a Silver for beating a mission and a Bronze for beating them on veteran, that just breaks the whole system!!! i don’t see on 360, u get 10 points for beating it on veteran and 50 poimts for beating it on any difficulty. please reply, thanks

Thanks JD_2020..I was done with COD but after seening all your tweets,reading bout all the changes,and the videos I know this game will be in my PS3 a long time…I loved WaW way better than MW1 really..I love the coop and the zombie mode…I cant wait..Thanks Treyarch and thanks you

How is the 2 PSN account thing going to work? What if someone cant afford the Prestiege or Hardend packages to get the bonus zombie maps? How will someone get the extra maps from Call of Duty: World at War?

is it just me that thinks this or will Black Ops be a boosterfest? Tactical Insertion returns, Online Split-screen introduced. Every single player will just make a new account and use it to boost with. There wont be a legit game played ever! and the theatre mode wont help stop it as everyone will be boosting, boosting lobbies will be made, its just all becoming too easy for boosters! PLEASE JD, explain to me how you are planning to stop this and what measures have been taken to stop this!

Thanks Treyarch for more awesome features. I can’t wait to get Call Of Duty Black Ops and use the new Emblem Editor so when somebody watches me in their Killcam, they’ll see the awesome Emblems I’ll have on my gun. Then I’ll spend time working on Character Customization and I’ll be watching some Wager Matches that I just dominated with the new Theatre Mode.

Finally cod makers are listening to the community… Activision and Treyarch please don’t listen to Microsoft you’re losing fans in the PS3 community as well in PC. And please make a complete game not like MW2 that is a broken game and IW are not even trying to fix it or that’s how it looks like.